Loreal, Luxembourg Garden

Has a wide, rounded flat brush. I find these a bit hard to use as the flatness means the polish dries out quicker when applying. To compensate I overload the brush and then swipe off excess after I have covered the whole nail.
Colour is good, very even. A dark slate grey with a soft forest green metallic pigment.
However has chipped easily and tip wear the following day. Used two coats. Sally Hansen megashine over the top. Without it, the Loreal has a soft shine only.

Arezia (golden sheen peach)

I borrowed one of my cousin's polishes when I was on holiday. It didn't have a code number. Arezia are fashion colours in tiny bottles sold in Sasa stores in HK, Singapore, Malaysia etc.
This one is so pretty. A mid peach with a beautiful golden sheen. In some light it will look completely gold. So easy to apply. I did three coats to get coverage though and to hide streaking.

Wet n Wild - 224C The Wonder Yellows

I think I have actually blogged this one before. However I'm currently painting all my yellows and golds, so went back to this one for a second go. This was sent over by my lovely friend, Jeff. It's a bright, sunny yellow pearl. Easy to paint on but the brush is a little bristly.

Yes, it does streak, for those who dislike streaky frosts. Also I only did two coats so you can see it is not very opaque.

Been fairly chip resistant so far. :)

Splassh - 40

My friend, Cai, went to Malaysia and hauled me a big pack of polishes from Sasa. This was one of them. It's a pearl coral/peach and while it was a bit gooey, it wasn't terrible to work with. Fair brush and a good length handle. I like this kind of bottle, much better control.

Good lustre and a pretty colour. A little streaky.

Satin - 13

Terrible brush, scratchy bristles made it really hard to get a smooth coat down. Satin is a cheap brand in discount chemists, $2 a bottle usually. This was a very pretty violet with blue flashes in the bottle that didn't translate on nail. Lovely deep colour when I got to 3 coats. You can see in one of the photos where I had one coat done, how sheer and patchy it is.

I decided to pep it all up with a coat of blue flakes from the brand NYX.

Chi Chi (mini) - Serial Dater

A beautiful, hot coral with a pinkish sheen and gorgeous pearly finish. Don't take notice of the bubbles, that was from the top coat. Nice formula and brush, went on nicely, but you might notice the tip wear. Yeah well, I did three coats and overnight I already had tip wear!!! No chipping though.

B Collection - Saigon

Oh, B Collection... are you over and out? When I go to Target, seems the supply is dwindling. Every time one more perspex shelf appears to have been withdrawn, and your products squeezed into every small areas.

I think I have pretty much picked out all the B Collections I want. This was one of the last ones. It's not bad and not really that similar to a lot out there. It's a very soft lilacy pink. Or maybe more of a pink lilac actually. But anyway, quite neutral in tone. There is a silvery pearl throughout. Formula a little gluggy. I think all the B's are now old stock. Brush and cap are nice to use.

Satin - Seasonal Nail Enamel 6

Well, what can I say about this? I saw it and thought WOW, must have it. Putty... Concrete... Lilac tinged... Pearly sheen... Frost.

Satin is an Aussie drug store brand. It was not too bad, but definitely requiring 3 coats, and I have found the polish degrades quickly. A year later and all you have is a gluggy mess in the bottle. But you get what you pay for.

But hey, as it says on the label: "seasonal". You buy it cheap, you wear it for a while, and then you toss it out.

I got a few comments on this colour, particularly from guys. I guess they are more used to pink or red so these neutral tones seem bizarre to them.

I want to add, however, that the brush was lovely. I'd tried some more $$ brands that had TERRIBLE bristles, but this was more than acceptable.

Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine - Luminous

As I said about the other Lacquer Shine I had on, this goes on like a dream. What an incredible formula. I've got 3 of these, so when the time comes I will review the other one. In the bottle I had imagined it was more of an orangey tone, but on the nail it seemed like a straight out hot red, not a hint of orange at all. These are quite old polishes, being in the discontinued basket, and for all my life only have seen them in one store, a Terry White chemist with not much clientele. Still, I cannot tell you that after the last few polishes being put on, I had rather dreaded that perhaps I was declining into old age and unable to hold a brush anymore or create even strokes.

This polish has told me: It's not you! It's them!

Anyway... I'd had trouble with those new fangled wide brush things and this is rather the average long bristled straight brush and it surely, surely is wonderful to apply with. *gush gush*

I've had tons of compliments. Last night, my friend was ordering in an Indian restaurant when the woman stopped him mid sentence and said: Those nails are AMAZING. Truly. She endured taking our drink and entree order and finally had to blurt it out. (dramatic writing licence used).

But seriously, yes, at work today had comments about them. Last week at work also. That's right... LAST WEEK. These babies have rode my dead skin cells for approximately 5 days. They had done the washing, scrabbled around in my handbag and it was only yesterday they took chipping. In fact, the last photo was taken 2 days ago. You can see some wear on the tip but the polish clung on for dear life.

So, it's a bold tomato red and is a pearl. It has delicious, beautiful depth. I think this series Lacquer Shine was really taking those deep, shiny asian lacquerware as inspiration, if you can visualise the layers and layers of varnish that give it that glittering warm depth.

Maybelline Mini Colorama - 56 Coral Rose

Ok biggest beef with this one is the colour drags off when applying a new coat. Even on the 3rd coat and other coats were hours dry, it seemed to melt the existing polish and therefore bald patches. HOW TO STOP THIS??? Gah.

I ended up dabbing colour on the bald patches which from afar looks even, and close up of course you can make it out.

Other than that, what a sweet colour. It is like a boiled lolly. Delightful. Pearly and golden but such a retro colour.